On the 18th, the National Development and Reform Commission formally launched a pilot project for low-carbon provinces and low-carbon cities. This is already the sixth substantive action for energy saving and emission reduction issued by relevant national functional departments since August. According to the reporter’s recent understanding, there are still a series of policies for energy saving and emission reduction that may be introduced in the second half of the year.
As early as July 19, the National Development and Reform Commission identified five low-carbon pilot provinces and eight low-carbon pilot cities. The pilot meeting held on the 18th announced that the pilot work was officially launched.
The website of the National Development and Reform Commission was announced on August 10. The committee issued the "Notice of the National Development and Reform Commission on Launching the Pilot Work of Low-Carbon Provinces and Low-Carbon Cities" on July 19. According to this notice, Guangdong, Liaoning, Hubei, Shaanxi, Yunnan, five provinces and Tianjin, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Xiamen, Hangzhou, Nanchang, Guiyang, and Baoding, the eight cities will be the first to carry out low-carbon pilot work.
The pilot work in these provinces and cities includes five specific tasks: the preparation of low-carbon development plans, the formulation of supporting policies to support low-carbon green development, the acceleration of the establishment of an industrial system featuring low-carbon emissions, and the establishment of statistics and management systems for greenhouse gas emissions data. Actively promote low-carbon green lifestyles and consumption patterns.
The notice stated that the low-carbon pilot work has a bearing on the overall economic and social development. Therefore, the pilot areas must establish a working mechanism in which the main leaders are responsible for grasping the general work. They must also hurry to work out a work implementation plan and submit it to the National Development and Reform Commission by August 31. Moreover, the National Development and Reform Commission will establish a contact mechanism with the development and reform departments of the pilot areas to evaluate the progress of the pilots on a regular basis.
This is already the sixth substantive action for energy saving and emission reduction issued by relevant national functional departments since August. In particular, on August 3, the National Bureau of Statistics, the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration jointly announced that after the energy consumption per unit of GDP in the first half of the year rose by 0.09% year-on-year, various emission reduction policies could come to an end.
On August 6, three days later, the six departments including the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Supervision, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the State Electricity Regulatory Commission, and the National Energy Administration issued a joint report on the immediate organization of national electricity prices. The notice of the “Great Inspection” announced that as of July 14th, 22 provinces, districts and cities nationwide that implemented preferential tariffs for high-energy-consuming enterprises had all issued documents to cancel local preferential tariffs. All high energy-consuming companies are now implementing new ones. Differential pricing policy.
On August 8, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced to the public iron and steelmaking, steelmaking, coke, ferroalloy, calcium carbide, electrolytic aluminum, copper smelting, lead smelting, zinc smelting, cement, glass, paper, alcohol, monosodium glutamate, and lemon. Twenty-eight industrial sectors including acid, leather, printing and dyeing, chemical fiber and other 2087 industrial enterprises eliminated the list of backward production capacity companies and required that their backward production capacity must be shut down before the third quarter of this year.

On August 11th, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Ministry of Finance jointly announced the second batch of promotion catalogues of energy-saving vehicles for energy-saving products.
Together with the first batch of energy-saving vehicle promotion catalogues announced on August 1st, the energy-saving emission reduction has become a major focus of national work.
At the 2010 China Low Carbon Development Forum held on the 18th, Xie Zhenhua, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, revealed that China will adopt a series of positive policies and measures in the future, vigorously eliminating backward production capacity, implementing ten key energy conservation projects, and solidly promoting energy conservation. Emission reduction work.
Xie Zhenhua said that to complete the "Eleventh Five-Year" task, the situation is very serious, leaving only 3 months. From the situation of the previous four years, there is still a gap between the amount of tasks we have completed and the schedule of time. In particular, in the first quarter of this year, the energy consumption per unit of GDP increased by another 3.2%. In order to realize all the goals of the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan”, it is necessary to make up for the emission reductions that have been delayed in the past and to eat up this part of this year’s growth.
Zhou Changyi, Director of the Department of Energy Conservation and Comprehensive Utilization of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, disclosed at the meeting that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is advancing a number of tasks to ensure the promotion of energy conservation and emission reduction.

First, vigorously carry out the transformation of low-carbon technology in traditional industries. According to him, currently China's industrial energy consumption accounts for 71.3% of the total society, and the potential for energy saving is still great.
Second, adopt a series of comprehensive measures to accelerate the elimination of backward production capacity. For instance, the announcement of eliminating the list of backward production capacity companies is part of this work.
Third, we must pay close attention to the management of energy conservation and consumption reduction of enterprises, and establish a series of energy management systems to impose requirements on the energy management of enterprises.
Fourth, we will promote the energy efficiency of key industries and key enterprises to meet the standards, and take the international advanced level as the standard to identify gaps and propose measures. Zhou Changyi stated that he wants to learn the Japanese leader system. This system requires that all companies must be transformed within six to eight years to reach the advanced level of the industry in energy conservation and emission reduction.
Fifth, organize the evaluation and application research of energy-saving and emission reduction projects in key industries, study and formulate advanced application catalogs for energy-saving and emission reduction in key industries and special plans for the promotion of key energy-saving technologies, publish energy-saving electromechanical equipment product recommendation catalogs and high energy-consuming backward electromechanical equipment Product elimination directory.
Sixth, we will vigorously develop a recycling economy, focusing on the regeneration of non-ferrous metal utilization plans and improving the level of resource recycling.

In addition, measures to reduce emissions for the people may also be introduced in the near future. According to Zhu Chengzhang, executive director of the China Energy Research Association and deputy director of the Department of Policy and Regulation of the Ministry of Energy, due to the severe energy conservation and emission reduction situation now and the “12th Five-Year Plan” may have higher energy-saving and emission-reduction targets, it is It is possible and necessary to have a series of energy-saving and emission reduction policies. "For example, the price of residential electricity ladders is expected to be introduced in the second half of the year," he told reporters.